Anthony Hopkins initially thought ‘Silence of the Lambs’ was youngsters’s story

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Veteran actor Anthony Hopkins says when he was provided the script of “The Silence of the Lambs”, the film which earned him an Oscar for Best Actor, he thought it was a youngsters’s story.

Hopkins famously performed serial killer Hannibal Lector reverse Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 traditional, which had swept the highest 5 Academy Awards a 12 months later.

Both Hopkins and Foster took house Oscars for greatest actor and actress, respectively, for his or her performances within the film, which is until date thought of one of many best and influential movies of all time.

The two actors reunited for Variety’s Actors on Actors collection and reminisced about their time engaged on the film.

“We did not get to talk an excessive amount of earlier than the precise read-through.

We simply kind of type of waved from throughout the room after which sat down on the desk,” Foster, 58, mentioned.

“And as you launched into Hannibal Lecter, I felt a chill come over the room. In a way, it was like we were almost too scared to talk to each other after that,” she added.

Hopkins, 83, recalled that when he bought the script for “The Silence of the Lambs” in 1989, he was within the London manufacturing of the play “M. Butterfly”.

“My agent despatched a script. He mentioned, ‘Why do not you learn this? It’s referred to as ‘Silence of the Lambs’.’ I mentioned, ‘Is it a youngsters’s story?’ It was a sizzling summer time afternoon, and the script came to visit and I began studying it.

“After 10 pages, I phoned my agent. I mentioned, ‘Is this an actual supply? I need to know. This is the very best half I’ve ever learn’.

I learn the remainder of the script, and Jonathan came to visit on a Saturday afternoon and we had dinner.

And I mentioned, ‘Is this for actual?’ And he mentioned, ‘Yeah’.

I mentioned, ‘OK’. He was such an exquisite man to work with. I could not imagine my luck,” Hopkins mentioned.